South Africa calls for cooperation at the G20 meeting in the middle of tensions over Ukraine Russia-Ukraine War News

President Cyril Ramaphos speaks grouping international law crucial to solving world crises.

Foreign Ministers from the G20 upper economies gathered in Johannesburg South Africa, in the middle of geopolitical conversations, tension over Ukrainian war And with a top American diplomat, a sense of absence.

G20, grouping 19 countries as well as the European Union and the African Union representing about 85 percent of Global GDP and three-quarters of trade, is deeply divided into key issues from the Russian War in Ukraine in Ukraine.

South Africa, currently having the G20 presidency, opened the first major meeting of the group on Thursday.

President Cyril Ramafosa said for Ministers of Foreign Foreign Affairs G20 that multilateralisms and international law are key to solving world crises, while the alarm is about to deepen the group.

“It is critical that the principles of the UN Charter, multilateralism and international law should remain in the center of all our efforts. That should be adhesive that keeps us together,” Ramafos said in their introductory remarks.

“However, a lack of consensus among great powers, including G20, on how to respond to these issues of global importance.”

Strife threatened “already fragile global coexistence,” Ramaphos said.

The United States did not attend after the State Secretary Marco Rubio earlier this month rejected as “very bad” previously agreed agenda “diversity, capital and inclusion.”

US President Donald Trump then reduced the help of South Africa due to a spor with a nation of efforts to respect historical racial injustices owned by the country and him The case of genocide against the American Allied Israel at the International Court of Justice.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attended a meeting, together with officials from EU countries who were paid to constant support in Ukraine and condemned Russian aggression.

Ukraine tensions

World leaders are divided on how to respond to dramatic policy shifts from Washington, because Trump returned to power last month, including a Plan to secure a deal With his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin through Ukraine.

This created concern among the European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who warned that Kiev would not recognize any agreement Without his participation.

The shift in American politics was followed by a war war Between Trump and Zelenic, after the Ukrainian leader, he caused an American president, who suggested that Kiev began the war.

Against this background, Ramaphos reminded the participants “that cooperation is our greatest strength.” “We’re striving to find a common country through a constructive engagement,” he said.

“As G20, we must continue to advocate for diplomatic conflict solutions,” including those who rage in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Sudan, and Gazi (it) accurate human tull and increase global uncertainty. “